The Power of Open Source for Business

Zmanda has released their Recovery Manager for MySQL. This is a great solution for DBAs seeking an easy-to-use backup and recovery solution. Zmanda is based on the open source Amanda project started at the University of Maryland and the Zmanda team is a significant contributor to the Amanda project. Zmanda offers support through their Zmanda Network subscription offering.

Zmanda's has built on what was a rather generic backup project and now given it a much sharper focus by targeting the needs of DBAs. The Zmanda Recovery Manager includes support for automatic backup scheduling, monitoring and reporting, backup analysis and granular recovery. Backup is a must-have capability for business critical applications. More information is available at the links below.